Apparatus for preventing waste.



Patented Jan. 12, 1915' IN 1/ EN TOR 4 VVi/IhE/m fi/bmc/vi A TTOR/VEV W.ALBRECHT.

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APPLICATION FILED MABJ, 1911.

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WILHELM ALBRECHT, OF BGSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FGR PREVENTING WASTE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 7, 1911. Serial No. 612,825.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W'ILHELM ALBRncn'r, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, Suffolk county, in the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inApparatus for Preventing Waste, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in racking apparatus, and the samehas for its object more particularly to provide a simple, ellicient andreliable device for preventing waste due to overflow in the operation ofracking liquor from a cask in the course of the operation of bottling orpacking.

Further, said invention hasfor its object to provide a device which maybe readily disposed within the bunghole of a barrel and adapted toreceive the filling tubes by means of which the bottles or packages arefilled.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a device which maybe readily fitted into the bunghole of a cask, and provided with areceptacle for receiving the liquid which is displaced by the air andliquid tubes, and from which receptacle liquid so forced into the samewill be returned to the cask as liquid is withdrawn from said cask, andinto the bottles or packages to be filled.

Further, said invention has for its ob ject to provide a device whichcan be readily taken apart in order to permit of the cleaning thereof.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my inventionconsists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination,connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully clescribedand then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, whereinlike numerals of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a side view,partly broken away and in section, showing a cask and means for fillinga plurality of bottles combined with a device for saving waste,constructed according to and embodying my said invention; Fig. 2 is aside view of the device for preventing the waste; Fig. 3 is a top viewthereof, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged, de

tail central sectional view, showing the interior construction andarrangement of the several parts of the device.

In said drawings, 10 designates a cask, or other suitable receptacle,containing the liquid to be racked off into bottles or packages 11, 11.

12 denotes a hollow, preferably hemispherical, receptacle made of metal,or other suitable material, having a flange 12 along its edge, andprovided upon its outer side with loops or eyes 13, 13 to wh ch arepivotally secured screws 14, 14: provided at their threaded ends withwing nuts 15, 15.

17 denotes a removable top or cover having a central opening 18; an airvent or aperture 19, and a series of recesses 20 20 in its outer edgeadapted to receive the threaded ends of the screws 14, 14. The cover 17is further provided upon its under side, adjacent to its edge, with adepending flange 17*.

20 denotes a tube centrally arranged within the receptacle 12 andsecured thereto adjacent to its lower end; The upper end of said tube 20is open and adapted to eX- tend through the central opening 18 in thecover 17, and the lower end or said tube projects through the bottom ofthe receptacle 12. Adjacent to its upper edge said tube 20 is providedwith a flange 21, and below said flange, but within the receptacle 12,said tube 20 is provided with overflow apertures 22, 22.

23 denotes an annular packing of rubber, or other suitable material,interposed between the outer edge of the cover 17, and the rim 12 of thereceptacle 12, and 2% denotes a similar packing arranged upon the flange21, and surrounding the upper end of the tube 20.

25 denotes an annular bushing made of Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

rubber, or other suitable material, disposed upon the lower projectingportion of the tube 20, and having a laterally projecting flange 26 atits upper end adapted to contact with the under side of the receptacle12. The said bushing 25 is adapted to be fitted into the bunghole 27 ofthe cask 10, in order to effect an air-tight closure between saidreceptacle 12 and the cask 10.

28 denotes a hollow rubber plug having its upper end curved and arrangedin a position substantially at right-angles to the main portion ofsaidplug, and provided with an end or head 29 having a series ofopenings 30, 30 therein adapted to receive a series of liquid tubes 31,81 made of rubher, or other suitable material, which tubes are fittedsnugly within said openings 30, 30 in the head 29, and extend downwardlythrough the plug 28, the tube 20, and into the cask 10 to a point adacent to the bottom thereof.

32 denotes an air tube also made of rubber, or other suitable material,extending through the head 29 in the plug 28 and the tube 20, andterminating at a point directly below the lower end of the tube 20. Theouter end of the air tube 32 is adapted to be connected with a suitablesource of air supply for the purpose of conducting air into the caskabove the liquid contained therein, while the outer ends of the liquidtubes 31, 31 are adapted to be inserted into the bottles or receptacles11, 11 to be filled with the liquid from the cask 10.

The operation of the device is as follows: In order to initiate thesiphoning operation to withdraw the liquid from the cask 10, it merelybecomes necessary to insert the tube 20 of the receptacle 12 into thebunghole of the cask and effect a tight closure between the bushing 25and the bunghole 27. Hereupon the hollow plug 28 is inserted into theupper end of the tube 20, and the ends of the tubes 31, 31 immersed inthe liquid, to a point directly above the bottom of the cask 10. The airtube 32 is then so adjusted within the hollow plug 28 that its inner endshall project slightly beyond the lower, inner end of the tube 20.Hereupon, the outer ends of the liquid tubes 31, 31 are disposed withinthe mouths of the bottles or packages to be filled. To start thesiphoning action, it merely becomes necessary to introduce air throughthe air tube 32, and cause the same to act upon the liquid containedwithin the cask 10, and force the same upwardly through the liquid tubes31, 31, and into the receptacles or bottles 11, 11. As soon as the flowof the liquid has been established, the same will continue until saidflow is stopped by the operator when the bottles or packages 11, 11 arefilled to the desired extent. It will, 9f course, be understood thatwhen the air is introduced into the cask, through the air tube 32, thatthe air vent or aperture 19 in the receptacle 12 must be closed, whichmay be done by pressing the finger upon the cover or top 17 directlyover said aperture. Any liquid which may be forced upwardly within thetube 20, when the liquid tubes 31, 31 are inserted in a full caskthrough the tube 20, will be caused to issue through the openings 22, 22in the portion of the tube disposed within the receptacle 12, and causethe liquid to collect within the receptacle 12. hen the siphoning actionhas been duly initiated, and the flow of liquid from the cask has beenestablished, the 'air pressure is discontinued by uncovering the airvent 'or aperture 19 in the top 17. The overflow will thereupon bepermitted to return from the receptacle 12 into the cask 10 through theopenings 22, 22, and the tube 20.

It will be readily apparent that by means of my device, 1 am enabled tofill bottles and other packages in the ordinary manner, and at the sametime prevent all loss due to overflow when the liquid tubes are insertedinto the full cask, or air pressure first applied.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Pat, cut, is

1. A device of the character described, comprising a closed receptaclehaving an aperture in the top thereof, a tube arranged in saidreceptacle having its upper end open and projecting through the top ofsaid receptacle, and its lower end projecting beyond the bottom of saidreceptacle, and having openings provided in the portion thereof arrangedwholly within said receptacle, and a bushing disposed upon the lower endof said tube below said receptacle, substantially as specified.

2. A device of the character described comprising a receptacle, a covertherefor having a central opening therein and a smaller aperture to theside thereof, means for securing said cover to said receptacle, a tubesecured adjacent to its lower end in said receptacle and having itsupper end open and extending through the central opening in said coverand having its portion disposed within said receptacle provided withperforations, a flange upon said tube adjacent to its upper end, anannular packing disposed upon said receptacle intermediate its edge andsaid cover therefor, and a packing disposed upon the flange arrangedupon said tube, substantially as specified.

3. A device of the character described 0 comprising a receptacle, acover therefor having a central opening therein, a smaller aperture tothe side thereof, a tube extending through said receptacle having theportion thereof arranged within said receptacle 1 5 perforated andprovided adjacent to its upperedge with an annular flange, and itsextreme upper end adapted to be fitted into the central opening in saidcover, an annular packing disposed upon the edge of said re- 120ceptacle, and a similar packing surrounding the upper end of said tubeand resting upon the flange adjacent to the upper end thereof, and meansadapted to engage said cover whereby to hold the same detachably se- 125cured to said receptacle, substantially as specified.

4:. A. device of the character described, the combination of a,receptacle, a cover secured thereto having an aperture therein, a tube130 arranged in said receptacle open at its top air tube extendingthrough said plug, suband bottom; said tube having its upper endstantially as specified. secured to said cover and projecting there-Signed at the city of Boston, in the county through, and its lower endprojecting beof Suffolk, Commonwealth of Massachu- 5 lOW the base ofsaid receptacle, and the porsetts, this first day of March, one thousand15 tion thereof disposed Within said receptanine hundred and eleven.

cle provided With perforations, a bushing WILHELM ALBRECHT. disposedupon said tube, a plug disposed Witnesses: in the upper end of said tubehaving a plu- Gno. MILLER,

10 rality of flexible liquid tubes, and a flexible A. L. SCI-IUBERT.

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